backup before upgrading to Sarge

2005-08-25 Thread Marco Ballini
Hello everybody, I'd like to switch from Woody to Debian. As I'm going to repartition my hard disk, I'll install from scratch (i.e. formatting drives)... So I need to backup my data. How can I backup Evolution 1.0.5 data (contacts and messages) and Galeon data (bookmarks, sessions and history) an

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Charles Read wrote: Hey everybody! I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable and from that moment forward everybody with wood

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 30 May 2005 12:44 pm, Jacob S wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:28:21 -0400 > Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey everybody! > > > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is >

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Charles Read: > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it > like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable > and from that moment forward everybody with wood

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:28:21 -0400 Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is > it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be l

"Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody! I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable and from that moment forward everybody with woody has sarge, and like

Re: no kdm after upgrading to sarge

2004-12-26 Thread Dani Belz
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:44:20 +0800 jianan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Upon closer examination of log files, the following errors were > encountered. > > In syslog, "kdm_greet[875]: Can't open default user face. > > In kdm.log, "kdmcore(KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory > /usr/share

no kdm after upgrading to sarge

2004-12-25 Thread jianan
Hi, Upon closer examination of log files, the following errors were encountered. In syslog, "kdm_greet[875]: Can't open default user face. In kdm.log, "kdmcore(KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Default/group 192x192/ emblem not valid. Many more such WARNINGs for different gr

no kdm after upgrading to sarge

2004-12-25 Thread jianan
Hi, Upon closer examination of log files, the following errors were encountered. In syslog, "kdm_greet[875]: Can't open default user face. In kdm.log, "kdmcore(KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Default/group 192x192/ emblem not valid. Many more such WARNINGs for different gr

Re: Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

2004-11-24 Thread Sam Watkins
ges from the internet to upgrade to sarge. Be warned, upgrading to sarge will involve a lot of downloading, I hope you have a fast internet connection. Comment out everything in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, with a # at the start of each line, then add: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sar

Re: Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

2004-11-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041124 17:36]: > # vi /etc/apt/sources.list > :%s/woody/sarge/g > :wq > # apt-get dist-upgrade That will not work. > Should I delete everything in this file and just use the above? Depends on the other sources you have in your sources.list. If you use t

Re: Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

2004-11-24 Thread disciple
Thanks Sam. Here's the contents of my file; How should I modify it? deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20031201)]/ unstable contrib

Re: Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

2004-11-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just want to make sure that I have this right. After searching the > archives, I found this: > > # vi /etc/apt/sources.list > :%s/woody/sarge/g > :wq > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > > Should I delete everything in this file an

Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

2004-11-24 Thread disciple
Just want to make sure that I have this right. After searching the archives, I found this: # vi /etc/apt/sources.list :%s/woody/sarge/g :wq # apt-get dist-upgrade Should I delete everything in this file and just use the above? Is this all that is needed to have it upgraded? Am I missing some

Re: Upgrading to sarge

2004-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 12 November 2004 09:48 am, Ed Curtis wrote: > Just want to know if I'm following the correct path here. I set up a > mirror test system to see if I could accomplish this correctly before > attempting it on my production server. I currently run Woody. I ran > apt-get update then apt-get up

Upgrading to sarge

2004-11-12 Thread Ed Curtis
Just want to know if I'm following the correct path here. I set up a mirror test system to see if I could accomplish this correctly before attempting it on my production server. I currently run Woody. I ran apt-get update then apt-get upgrade to make sure my system was up to date. I then changed a

Re: Upgrading to Sarge

2004-10-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:59:51PM +0530, Vijaya S wrote: > Hi all, > I have a mahcine with woody on it..I would like to upgrade it to Sarge. > How do i do that? > Should i use Sarge cds for that... > or > edit /etc/apt/sources.list > > Would i lose any data if i do so.. > Its a server so i wouldn

Upgrading to Sarge

2004-10-21 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, I have a mahcine with woody on it..I would like to upgrade it to Sarge. How do i do that? Should i use Sarge cds for that... or edit /etc/apt/sources.list Would i lose any data if i do so.. Its a server so i wouldnt like to lose any data.. How can i accomplish that Regards, Vijaya -- T

Instructions for upgrading to Sarge from the gnome2.2 woody backport

2004-08-10 Thread James Strandboge
Here are instructions for upgrading woody systems using the gnome2.2 backport to sarge: http://gnome22.alioth.debian.org/sarge.html Upgrading isn't significantly different than upgrading to sarge from official woody, but there are some important additional steps to ensure a smooth up

Re: libstdc++ lossage during dist-upgrading to sarge

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:39:59PM -0400, David Morse wrote: > I decided to give sarge a try. I did a dist-upgrade. Now all apt-get > commands ignore me and instead try to install packages "mirrormagic" > "moon-buggy" "nedit" and "oneko". Installing those packages fails > with several complai

libstdc++ lossage during dist-upgrading to sarge

2003-08-14 Thread David Morse
Hi, I decided to give sarge a try. I did a dist-upgrade. Now all apt-get commands ignore me and instead try to install packages "mirrormagic" "moon-buggy" "nedit" and "oneko". Installing those packages fails with several complaints like this: update-menus: /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: vers